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...Iranian politics, Ahmadinejad has been quoted as saying, "We did not have a revolution in order to have democracy." Perhaps he needs to be reminded that it was the democratic process that elevated him to the presidency. Fred Hayes Rauland, Norway...
...runoff vote in the Iranian presidential election, which he later won. Of Iranian politics, Ahmadinejad has said, "We did not have a revolution in order to have democracy." Perhaps he needs to be reminded that it was the democratic process that elevated him to the presidency. Fred Hayes Rauland, Norway Taking Jackson Seriously I was dismayed to read time's trivializing, quiz-format overview of the Michael Jackson trial [June 27]. Although Jackson was found not guilty of child molestation, the subject of molesting young boys is not humorous, and your attempt to derive light entertainment from the case...
...have somehow made it past the U.S. Senate. Justice James Clark McReynolds, who served until 1941, was, in the words of historian David Garrow, a "drooling anti-Semite" who refused to speak with fellow Justices Louis Brandeis and Benjamin Cardozo or have his picture taken with them. Chief Justice Fred Moore Vinson was a glorified drinking buddy of President Harry Truman's whose sudden death was hailed by fellow Justice Felix Frankfurter as "the first indication I have ever had that there is a God." Justice Potter Stewart's friends said Stewart resigned partly because he couldn't stand Warren...
...lore. Berry had been born in Hartford, a place that, entirely due to Berry, had assumed a hallowed significance in BLOHARDS legend. Berry, who as a Connecticut lad could have gone either way (Sox or Yanks), had, as he says, ?grown up under the spell of Sox radio announcer Fred Hoey.? Berry?s grandfather Bunts Berry, the first man in the history of Hartford to bunt, having laid one down in 1878. ?The Ballad of Bunts Berry? used to be dutifully recited each April as the bus passed the old East Hartford cutoff. The year I traveled with the BLOHARDS...
...Felicis that makes whoever imbibes it extra lucky. But this is the second-to-last book in the series, and for all the fun, the mood is darkening. You can't help but feel that Rowling is trotting out the fan favorites--your Tonks, your Luna, your Buckbeak, your Fred and George--for a final sunlit outing before chaos overtakes Harry. Having carefully built a cozy fictional universe over five previous books, Rowling has the task of tearing it apart, and there are several tableaux of genuinely surreal horrors, including a vicious werewolf (not at all cuddly like Lupin...